Evening talk by John Harrison Church bells were cast in Wokingham between the mid-1300s and the early 1600s. The foundry is long gone but some of the bells cast there are still in use. Bell founding methods used today can be traced back to the way medieval founders worked. Brick making thrived in Wokingham during…
Sue Berry will be covering the development of diverse industries in the county town during this period. It will include an exploration of how a market and administrative centre’s, mainly processing industries, such as candle-making and brewing, altered, and why the fortunes of other industries such as iron industries fluctuated. Non-members welcome £1.00
Historian and author Lynne Mayers describes the Kennal Vale Paper Mill, and poses the question whether it was the most successful mill in Cornwall The picturesque and deeply wooded Kennal Vale near Penryn in Cornwall is now a nature reserve, but was once a hive of industrial activity. In the nineteenth century it was the…
A Saturday morning talk by Colin A Carbert. An account of a little-known local facet of the 1st World War, an airfield which was established near Tadcaster as a home defence base and training installation. Our speaker has researched the subject thoroughly from the personal accounts and diaries of those who served there, through to…
Doug Irvine, a retired civil engineer, will talk to BIAG about the life and significant works of Thoms Telford, who was a pre-eminent engineer of bridges, aqueducts, roads and canals at the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th century. Details of how to get to the hall are available here: http://biag.org.uk/events-page/…
